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Daniel Kevles, PhD

Professor Emeritus of History and Senior Research Scholar in Law
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Professor of American Studies

Adjunct Prof. of Law

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Professor Emeritus of History and Senior Research Scholar in Law

Professor of American Studies; Adjunct Prof. of Law

Biography

Professor Kevles received his B.A. from Princeton University (Physics) in 1960, training at Oxford University (European History) from 1960-61, and his Ph.D. from Princeton (History) in 1964. His research interests include: the interplay of science and society past and present; the history of science in America; the history of modern physics; the history of modern biology, scientific fraud and misconduct; the history of intellectual property in living organisms; and the history of science, arms, and the state. His teaching areas are the history of modern science, including genetics, physics, science in American society, and the engineering and ownership of life. His books include The Baltimore Case, In the Name of Eugenics, The Physicists, The Code of Codes (co-edited with Leroy Hood), and Inventing America: A History of the United States (coauthored). He is currently completing a book on the history of innovation and intellectual property protection in the stuff of life.

Last Updated on June 22, 2015.

Education & Training

PhD
Princeton University, History (1964)
BA
Princeton University (1960)

Research

Overview

Dr. Kevles's teaching areas are the history of modern science, including genetics, physics, science in American society.

Publications

Others

  • Inventing America: A History of the United States, coauthored with Alex Keyssar, Pauline Maier, and Merritt Roe Smith (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002; 2nd edition forthcoming, 2005)
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • International Eugenics, in Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Holocaust Museum, 2004), pp. 41-60
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • Ownership and Identity: The Drive to Manipulate DNA Has Changed the Economy and the Law, The Scientist, Jan. 13, 2003
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity Alfred A. Knopf, 1985; University of California Press,1986 (paperback); Harvard University Press, 1995 (paperback with new preface). Also published in England (Penguin), Japan (Asahi), Spain (Editions Planeta), France (Presse Universitaire de France).
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • Big Chill in Biotechnology, Technology Review (July 2003)
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project, edited with Leroy Hood Harvard University Press, 1992; (paperback, 1993); published in Germany (Artemis and Winkler), 1994 and in Japan (Ague Shotu-Sha), 1997.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

Activities

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    Genomics and intellectual property

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    Medical and Modern Life Sciences History

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Mailing Address

Yale University

P.O. Box 208324

New Haven, CT 06520-8324

United States